TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, November 2007    Software Aids BPO Firm’s Site Search by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com S ervice Source, a San Francisco-based outsource sales organization specializing in the business of technical service contract renewals for computer hardware, Dave Dunlap, senior vice president of worldwide operations, Service Source software and healthcare […]

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, November 2007   LCD Makers Invest to Meet Soaring Demand by JOHN W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  The Triangle industrial zone in Zatec, Czech Republic, is home to new LCD manufacturing facilities built by Japanese firms. The Triangle is a former air base that has been redeveloped. E astern Europe is […]

2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   At 1,680 ft. (512.1 meters) on July 21, 2007, the 141-story Burj Dubai, developed by Emaar Properties, attained official status as the tallest building in the world, besting Taipei 101 in Taiwan by 13 ft. (4 meters). Emaar and its 5,000-plus construction workers and […]

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   EDOs: Are You Ready for Your Close-up? O ne reason this issue of Site Selection is so large is because it contains one editorial survey and four editorial profiles. Profiles are shorter versions of a survey, but they do much the same thing, which is to […]

SEPTEMBER 2007 Arteries of the Economy (cover) Meet a Member IAMC People & Projects Request Information

2007 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   The Infrastructure Dilemma Will the U.S. follow the world’s lead in turning to private-sector investment? by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  and ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com A ssessing the world’s infrastructure needs is a daunting task. Even more daunting for governments is developing formulas […]

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   The Maine Thing Freightliner Gets What It Needs in Coahuila   E by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com  arly this summer, Chrysler Group announced three new investments in North America to support production of its Phoenix V-6 engine. While the new plants in Trenton, Mich., and […]

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   It Tolls for Thee PPP or not, transportation projects seek to monetize assets. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com “A ccording to the Federal Highway Administration, $131.7 billion and $9.4 billion is needed respectively every year over the next 20 years to repair deficient roads and bridges.” […]

orcester, Mass., has RNA expert Craig Mello, this year’s Nobel laureate in medicine. Phoenix, Ariz., has Jeffrey Trent, a noted genomics researcher. San Jose, Calif., has Guy Miller, an expert in treating “orphan” diseases and entrepreneur. Houston recently wooed Stephen Wong, a noted inventor and expert in molecular imaging, from Boston, Mass.    For many regions […]

ny discussion of the U.S. economy and strategies to confront global competition for jobs and investment must invariably address the workplace and how it is being transformed by knowledge-centered and technology-driven skills and occupations. More often than not, such dialogue takes on an almost apocalyptic tone, painting scenarios of a society verging on a demographic […]

TOP UTILITIES 2007 From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   Business Climate Changers These top utility economic developers know how to renew the economic portfolios of the regions they serve. $500 million in environmental controls, many to be installed at its Sioux Plant (pictured) in St. Charles, Mo., are part of Top Utility Ameren’s $1-billion […]

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, September 2007   Swedish Auto Supplier Opens Plant in Romania German Axle Maker Rolls Into Australia   Germany Powering Up As World’s Solar Leader Phoenix-based First Solar has opened a solar module plant in Frankfurt an der Oder in the former East Germany. The plant is located in a […]

COVER STORY From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   Get in Line A regional economy may set sail behind an expanding fleet of nuclear plants. T by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com Southern Co.’s Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, located in Waynesboro, Ga., is one of more than a dozen nuclear sites in the Southeast […]

EDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   Where Fast Tracks Get Fast-Tracked by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com R eturning from a trade mission and editorial research trip to Spain a few days ago, I couldn’t help but feel humbled by the new infrastructure I saw and toured there, because I would be hard- […]

JULY 2007 Coming Into Our Own (cover) Professional Forum Report Meet a Member Blue Ridge Facility Wins Gold From Green Request Information

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   Sample the Soil Same Day, Next State Over Compass Points to Magnetic South The scale of ThyssenKrupp’s steel project gives new meaning to ‘teamwork’   by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com  Central to solving the logistics challenges faced by the Alabama site was the pledge by […]

PROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   IFC Launches Municipal Scorecard 2007  The World Bank and You An institution known for backing developing- world infrastructure projects has plenty of irons in corporate fires. by ADAM BRUNS, adam.bruns bounce@conway.com B eyond its internal governance battles and external reach into projects in every corner of […]

ncentives exist at various levels of government, and may even be found from sources outside of the traditional economic development agencies. Even locations that claim to have nothing to offer are mistaken in that assertion. The incentives that can be offered by the federal government exist on a nationwide basis and are often overlooked. This […]

CEO or corporate real estate decision maker looks for the same fundamental things in an industrial real estate development company that each of us looks for in any business deal. Chief among those fundamentals is trust. We try to find those with whom we have a relationship or with whom we feel we can build […]

onsultant: We need to check and see if you are located in any Economic Development Zones. Client: We aren’t. I already checked the federal Enterprise Zone maps.    Consultant: Federal Maps. Do you mean Enterprise Communities?    Client: Maybe it’s Empowerment Communities?    Consultant: That’s Empowerment Zones.    Client: Back to Enterprise Zones …    Taxadvantagegroup llc maintains a database […]

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, July 2007    Developing Divestiture Strategies A new service targets surplus properties. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com C hevron‘s mergers with Texaco in 2001 and Unocal in 2005 left the San Ramon, Calif.- based oil giant with a considerable number of surplus properties. The company is now evaluating […]

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, July 2007   France Attracts Engineering Firm, Roche Opens Basel Biotech Center Fiber Firms Form India JV, Announce Plant Near Mumbai by JOHN W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  Thomas Fahnemann, chairman of Lenzing’s management board, (right), shakes hands with Satish Modi, chairman of India’s Modi Group, following a joint venture agreement […]

THE 2006 COMPETITIVENESS AWARD From Site Selection magazine, May 2007    Take Two The Alabama Development Office claims its second Competitiveness Award. by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com E ven as the Alabama Development Office (ADO) was battling its counterpart in Louisiana for the giant ThyssenKrupp steel plant project this spring, the agency paused in April to […]